Trump Is Absolutely Flailing in High-Quality Polls

By

Ed Kilgore,

political columnist for Intelligencer since 2015

We use polling averages to assess trends in public opinion because single polls can turn out to be outliers. But it’s hard not to notice that amid more turmoil in the Middle East and an increasingly vicious battle between the president and his Senate allies, a batch of high-quality polls have shown Donald Trump’s popularity going off the deep end: